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GREENCASTLE. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2. 1933.

NO. 247

NAM COUNTY ; ENT $4,330.20 ! OM DOG TAX

r townships still owe $6,092 77 IN UNPAID CLAIMS

NRA "Oil Czar”?

DONE

DOCS

L Paid in From Five Townnhips 1 Diatrihuled to Delinquent Units • Lgh Putnam county paid out ^ j of 14.330.20 during the past L a result of damage done by i Lords in the county auditor's .how that eight townships still j 6,092 77 in unpaid claims filed j (niers. [ townships collected $356.05 j |„g tax this \ ear than they ex- j | in claims for damage done to ! hrgs and other farm animals, j uiplus, turned in to the county j r has been distributed among j l^r eight townships on the basis jr unpaid claims, ires in the auditor's office show 1 llarion township owes farmers I of $2,334.50 for animals killed Y Jefferson is behind a total Lg 77 in unpaid claims. Other | Lip,, are behind in the following ^^■ts: Greencastle. $772; Warren, Jackson, $266.50; Franklin. Iflint-m, $174: and Cloverdale.

BILL BUNDY FOUND DEAD LATE TUESDAY

Governor’s Bride

body of greencastle character FOUND BY BROTHER IN BED AT HOME

HAD BEEN DEAD SOME TIME

Acute Alcoholism Relieved To Have Caused Death. Coroner Called To Conduct Inquest.

James A. Moffett, who resigned as vice-president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey following a disagreement with the company over his proposed acceptance of an appointment of an NRA post under General Johnson. Rumor is persistent that Moffet may be the Recovery "oil czar ”

85 MEMBERS DEPART FOR CLUB CAMP

Onward at Seventy

nt? paid out the past year by rious townships for animals or killed by dogs follow: $271.45

Expensive Burden For Taxpayers

INDIANA PAYS $15,600,000 A YEAR FOR INEFFECTIYE CON. TROL Of CRIME

Henry "Bill" Bundy, age 5<t years, well known Greencastle character, 1 was found lead in bed at his home on east l iberty street about 5 o’clock j Tuesday afternoon by his brother, ' ; Otto “Mike” Bundy. Acute alcoholism was believed to have caused his death. Bundy was reported to have gone to bis room about !):.'!() Tuesday morn- i .ng, locking himself in. When dogs in j the room began an uproar about 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon his brother 1 went to the door to let the dogs out. It was then that he discovered the '

^ lifeless body.

A physician was called but he found '

Ithat Bundv had probably died four or *0, (both above) in Winnipeg, , .. _ , Canada, where they are visiting fne hours earlier Coroner Frank _. ..

Reed of Cloverdale was then notified. Although horn and reared at (.’oate.'villp Bundy had resided in thicity for the past fifteen years where he followed the blacksmith trade. Undertaker Otto F. Lakin who took chaige of the body, stated Wednesday that burial would be at Coatesville

Thursday morning.

PUTNAM COUNTY EXPECTED TO HAVE LARGEST DELEG \MON AT SHAH AM \K

WILL RETURN HOME SUNDAY

Lynn Brown of Greencastle to Vesper Speaker at Semce This Evening

SUFFERS PAINFUL INJURY The small laughter of Mr. and \h -

Old methods of crime control which do not reckon with the inventions for

248.23 -peed and devastation used by today's

227.26 | highly specialized criminal, are cost- j Charles Martin. Northwood, suffered 237.50 ing Indiana more than $15,600,000 a. a p a j n f u i injury Wednesday morning 347.60 1 year- J when she fell on a sharp stick which 155.75 j This estimate is to be found in the . wnetr[it0( j the roof of her mouth

a.-tle

gtmi

report of the Indiana Crime Survey

981.50 j

510.60 ■ Commission rtf 1929-30 on file in the 119.10 legislative reference bureau at the

. . 362 00 . . 264.50 . . 389.42 . 215 40 $4,380.20

je Supplies or M. E. Pulpit ALBERT E. MONGER IS .ROLLED IN UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Statehause It is one of the arguments advanced by the voluntary joint-as-sociation of statewide membership organizations which has formed the State Police Radio Committee and has opened a public subscription campaign to raise $100,000 for construction of a complete state police radio system. The direct expense of criminal losses each year in Indiana, the survey commission found, is $5,755,000 Actual property los es approximate $1,000,000 yearly; stolen automobiles, $700,000; hank robberies, $ It; 1,000; hurglarly and theft insurance premiums. $1,376,391; fidelity premiums, $867,132. In addition to the direct losses, the survey commission reported, Indiana annually pays her city and community

the

The little girl was taken to the County Hospital where the injury was

attended.

POSTPONES FLIGHT SHOAL HARBOR. N. F, Aug. 2 (UP)—General Italo Halim, commanding Italy-’s seaplane fleet en route home after a visit to the United States decided today to postpone the take j off on a 1,500 mile flight to Valentia,

Ireland-

HoSe Lee Crosby Dies At Barnard

Eighty-five Putnam county 4-H club girls and hoys departed Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock for Shakamak state park, near Jasonville, for I their annual club camp session which j will last until Sunday. Club members from Vermillion, Clay, Parke, ! and Sullivan counties also will attend the camp at the same time. Putnam county expected to have the

largest delegation at the camp.

! Club members will hold a swimi n ing session Wednesday afternoon | and then organize for the holding of 1 classc Thursday. The Clay county | group will provide the entertainment I : tonight. At the vesper service this ■ j evening Lynn Brown of Greencastle ] will -peak on what the 4-H club has j don" for the morals of Putnam counity. Vesper music will l>e furnished

b\ the Parke county group,

j Instructors for the class periods, [ which will continue each day until the 1 i iiriper.. return home Sunday, are Clyde Volkers, of near Reelsville, a) nat nallst; Miss Shipman, Vermillion <■< unty nurse; and Adam Bowles, Clay county vocational teacher. Class periods each day will he interspersed

■ i with organized play, swimming, ami SIX ROBBERS RBPOIMKD TRAP-I’-''st poii ds. PEI) NEAR COI FF.YM1.LK j f i 1 'am county dub leaders at the AFTER STEALING >AFE 1 amp include Miss l.orene Hicks, who

is in charge

STATEWIDE RESPONSE TO NR \ PROGRAM

Friends of Governor Pollard of Virginia say he will marry his secretary Miss Violet K M Dougall

Miss McDougall’a mother. The Virginia executive's first wife Hied more than a year ago. Miss MeDougall has been secretary to lour

governors of the state.

KANSAS BANK BANDITS ARE SURR01 M)ED

PLANE PH KS UP 3.000 MORE SIGNED AGREEMENTS I OD.AY BUSINESS LEADERS SIGNING Many Industries 1 ltrough"Ht Stats Ancunc" Shorter Hours an! Pay Incteases INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 2, (UP!— Ma s meetings, rr-ul' ng n .vholesa!' signing of agreements to comply with provisions of the NRA blanket cade, tc lay marked remvery efforts in In-

diana

In many cities the meetings were called by chamber, of ecmnierce or ivic leaders an I peakers explained operations of the blanket code In each instance, the majority of busii ness leaders pie.srnt signed coopera-

^ live agreements.

! The dtive for recovery was further speeded today with the use cf the sec- • ond airplane in two days to gather ! signed agreements. Today's flight was ever the southern se tinn of the ■ state. Stops were to be made at Bloomington, Vincennes, Evansville, New Albany, Jeffersonville, Madison,

i Connersville and Richmond. The plane which mole the flight

lover the northern portion of the state

The American Legion hand, under yfMpr(1; , y lanr|o(] ,, t c (hoPn fip ,j herP

A recent picture of Henry Ford, who celebrated his seventieth bi*hday in Detroit with an announcement of expansion of the Ford Com-

nanv's ouerations.

Band To Live N. R. A. Concert

AVAR T1AIK JUNES TO FEATURE PROGRAM HERE THlRSDAY

EVENING

the direction of Ray Trembly, has arranged a special program for their regular Thuisday evening concert on the courthouse lawn, featuring selection.- which were popular during the World war in observance of National Recovery week and the nineteenth anniversary of the actual beginning of the war, when Russia or-

of the commissary de- ! dered general mobilization of her

POCKED 22 CITIZENS IN JAIL

lartment; E. VV. Baker, county agent. | troops, July 30. 1914.

v/ho is in charge of camp quarters and Fiist choruses of “Pack Up Your

Bag," | Wind-

sanitation; Eugene Akers, in ch irge ^ Troubles in Your Old Kit

Bandits I ool, Possession of AAeir , f the evening vesper services; Miss ' •"There’s a Long, Long Trail City, Kan. During Night, lake l.ucille McClain, in charge of campling" and “Keep the

insists,

SaU; Out of Bank

lie. for the pulpit of the Gobin ial Methodist church while the 13 rn his vacation will he as

Aug 6, Prof. Francis C Til- police forces $4,300,000 and for

LIFELONG RESIDENT OP COM MUNITY SUCCUMBS AFTER LONG ILLNESS

died

COFFEYVILLE, Kan., Aug. 2. (UP)—Six bandit- who robbed the Citizens bank at Weir City, Kan., tn- | day, after locking 22 person in the 1 city jail, were reported surrounded j near here. Details of the ambuscade were meager. Sheriff Dave Hasenlaugh, however, reported to the hank at | Weir City that the hank’s safe was | recoveied intact. The fhree-ton strong hc x was hoisted on a truck sometime between 12:30 and I a m. by the six masked

men.

with more than 3,000 igned agreements. These, combined with those delivered directly to state headquarters here, raised the total on file with Francis Wells, state director, to ap-

proximately 15,000.

Front Washington today came announcement of the tate recovery boanl. appointed b\ Col. Hugh John son. national recovers administrator It is composed of Daniel Wertz Evansville; Adolf Fritz. Indianapolis Rudolph I .eels. Richmond; Joseph M

Homo Fire. ■ rv:ivcn '' Madison; M M. Dunbar, In

i dianapolis; G. M Leslie, Fort Wayne

Be.t

al activities.

Council To Hold Special Meeting;

Loved Southern Melodies” will he re-

peated, due to its popularity The complete program is as fol-

lows :

March, Gloria Losey There’s a Long, Long Trail . Elliott They Cut I) wn the Old Pine Tree, fox trot Arr. by Breigel

IMPROVEMENT OF SEWAGE IMS Selections from "Tannhau-c''

POSAL PLANT TO COME 1 P

FOR DISCI SSION

Pack Cp Your Troubles In Kit Bag

for mraii The Thunderer, march

Gleason, Gary, and Charles Temple

ton, Terre Haute.

Outstanding among the miss actions taken last light was a meeting at Greensburg at which business and ndustii.il leaders agreed to place the NRA code in effect throughout the idty and Decatur county Aug. 7. It Indianapolis, members of the Merchants Association, including 2S

AN or ()H | "f the largest downtown stores, eonPowell lerred with Wells and signed the

Wagner

Sweet and Lovely, fox trot

, ug 13, Prof. Carroll D. Hilde-1 maintenance if sheriffs’offices. $366,- Mrs. Rose Lee Crosby, 01, Aug. 23. Rev. C. C. Ford, I 786. Another $5,500,000 goes to th" Monday night at her home ..outheast ^t«mlent of Greencastle district, j expense of courts and prosecutions of Barnard after an illness of two an I

.Albert E. Monger, the pastor, | < aes in which criminals are brought , J years.

jolkd in the University of Chi-j to justice, many c . a;it g their just 1 he decea ed was born in 187 • ln {Hr the summer term of five ! desserts because of in.-ufficient evi- Putoam county, the daughter of I for graduate study He will j donee. In all, the crime bill was e-ti- 'as an 1 Maltha Sanders. She wa- mar to Greencastle for Sunday, mated by the cotnmi- ion to be $4-85 r * lM l -August 1, is.»7. to Tied ( to i\ 6. I per capita each year. | She had spent practically all of her — — — I By actual prwf that u-e of the | Me in the Barnard vicinity.

! "lice radio system in larger cities is The survivors include the husband; I capable of cutting erm- lo ses by 50 I *'X daughters. Mrs. Mary Hoo.er of per cent, and of increasil g the effic- : Roachdale. Mrs- Glenn Ho t of ! iency of police forces by three time* I Roachdale, Mr.-. Dewey Hawkins of ; over, estimates have been made that North Salem, Mrs. Paul I age

! at least $8,000 000 can be cut from the state's co t of crime with use of a well planned, twenty four h >ur state

police radio system.

| An effective state police radio sys-

tc m, as proposed by Al Feeney, state at the home Burial will be in the New ■I UOkla . Aug. 2. (UP) —The |; rP(t „ r „f pub p, ,f Pt y ai d whoso May svtlle cemetery,

of C harles F. T rschel, millt"n .. j,.,,. h i \- fined

i' il $200,000 to obtain thp miiny ,ndustri and business as Trioase from kidnaper.-. John » . - (t w |,ich have bam | prominent politician who m(>(tt .,p tbp large direct cost, will

blockade the state against organized

Plans and specifications for reran of the city ewage disposal plant on

west Columbia street road, will come ’’hi * "nn ole-, n ” ,r< 1

ilscu si on at a special meeting

. Sousa . Sciacca . Teike

Three women and the town marshal u *' ,ir .

■ kei ■ ■ < Weir mem ^ rS rh “. r8d “ y

City jail by the bandits, who captured ,11 pa- ershy who might have inter-

rupted the robbery

Non" of the victims was injured.

t

evening, according to Mayor W L

| Denman-

Art engine- r has been a preliminary I survey of the local disposal plant and will have plan an 1 apecificati in - and I

A company of national guard-men j P ;ti lna t P8 t„ - u hmit to the council

flic l Ransom $200,000 Report

IV OF OKLAHOMA OIL

r' N P AID HUGE SUM FOR

HIS RELEASE

was mobilized to ai 1 off’ pis in the . members-

chase that started about 4 20 i m. j Mayor Denman stated Wednesday The trail led to this vicinity where i that when the di posal plant for built

Paul Page of

Roachdale ai. 1 Misses Netina and (Jeneiva Crosby, both at home, and a

son, Donald Crosby, at home. The funeral services will be held

Thursday morning at eleven o'clock

Roy Slither I in

Explains New Bank

politician

intermediary, said he under

today. Catlett said he could not ( . r j mP ^angs from outs’de metropoli

Mive of the figure, but knew it tar, center -, will reduce the chances, ATTORNEY TELLS OF • ’ v ll '8h. f nr 8UC cessful crime perpetration and j LOAN BANK ransom was paid in Kansas esca|>e will create a Hice machinery j * ' ' j NI) ‘, ANA

|,‘•unday night, Catlett said. , that will connect every population i I wa, understood to have been se- ! ce nber with a defense as modern as I’V , h f ' family as the contact the instruments used by 1933 desper-

Jafter a report was received from

the ttuck carrying the strong box became mired in the mud. The bandits pried open the front door of the hank. Their truck was equipped with c winch to hoist the thtee-ton safe. E. J. Bennett, the town marshal, making his hourly patrol, discovered the men at work, hut was overpowered before he could sound an

alatm. Using

over thp

They

Adam ;, halting

the erg'neer- ha I failed to install i rock beds for the proper purifi ation of sewage. As a re ult frequent ' lit plaints have been made by persons! living in the vicinity of the plant.

Former Putnam Resident Dies

RITES FOR THOMAS ( HAND! ER,

FLORENCE. COLO., TO HE

HELD FRIDAY

^dnaper. agent in Kansas City. Pett said he went to Kansas City Registered at a hotel Sunday. By Sine he was advised to go to an-

hotel.

ad >es-

hi; keys, the bandits took

jail.

next captured Miss Agnes . night telephone operator, j

communication. She was j

lo. ked in the jail. | Word has been received here of the Two sister . Agnes and Vida Brit- j death of Thomas t handler, age ah' ut tin. teturning from a trip to the ^ ”6 years, at his home in Florence. ,

Missouri Ozarks, were halted as their I Colorado

| eut'mobile drove past the hank. They | Mr Chandler was born and rcare l j Roy C. Futherlin, local attorney and wprp poked up. ; n east Putnam county, where he will i representing this county in a legal ( bp robbery progressed, the bin- | be remembered b\ a large number of

NRA code.

Representative* of more than 190 restaurants in Indiana signed a blan-

Keep the Rime Fires Burning ! code at a meeting of the newly

Novello formed Indiana Btate Restaurant AsBest Loved Southern Melodies . . . . ; '’ci.'ti n, Inc. Haye ; The appointment, of Frink J. Kur-

Ira, St. Louis, assistant manager of the department of commerie there, as ., ' t int c ret 'iy to the Indiana re- : overy boimi, was annoum ed by

j Wells,

The tate administrator also out- ] lined plans for issuing daily bulletins

| |> ns() |, u ter. |, ting variou- provisions of the

k ; (tlanket code.

I Automobile dealers of the state met

in Indianapolis last night and heard j W. J R hinson, Indiana director of I the National Automobile Dealers As- | o iation, outline advantages for their industry under the recovery act. More than 4b employers at AnderI son, including merchants, factory heads and other.-, signed the blanket ; agreement yesterday and the total was expected t , reach 700 t'day. l Ptrliminarv plans to place the re-

Stars and Stripes Fotever, march .. Sousa Stai Spangled (Banner Key Elovmlale Man

ERNEST BA RAM SEN 11 Nt ID AT BRAZIL FOR AUTOMOBILE

BANDITRY

Sheriff Frank Goble, accompanied i by a deputy, left early Tuesday j morning hy automobile to deliver Frn est Byram, Clcverdale bad man and I convicted automobile hmd't, to Michi gan City t > begin a sentence of from

one to ten year?, jeovery pror-r.im into effect threughByram was wanted on two vehicle roMnP1 . villp , ithin a av , were

charges and a bad che k arraignment and i serving his second long term at the state prison.—Brazil Times.

IN DI AN APOLIS I.IA ESTOCK

>ut Connersville within 10 days were completed at a mass meeting at which E I. Higgs was named head of the citv committee in charge of the cam-

paign.

To enlist the full strength of retailers in t e state , ma-s meertng

SIGNS NRA CODE

NEW YORK, Aug. 2, (UP)—Standard Oil Co., of New Jersey and af filiated companies with a total of

Irtt said he followed instructions 48.000 employes today signed the “ade the ransom payment nra blanket code pending adoption

'a told, he said, to go home, I rai hel would he released within Rur„ J b p millionaire oil man was

I

of separate cede for the oil industrv Affiliates affc'ted include Colonial Beacon Oil Corp , Standard of Penn-

ed at midnight Monday, at Nor- B y|vania and St mdard of Louisiana. Mia, ‘ No estimate of the number of new

U t refused t:i discuss the case jobs which will

' way for the Home Loan Bank cor- (jjjg took

I peration in Putnam county, was the p 8S>Prs |,y until the little jail was streaker at the Rotary club Wednes- cr0 wded with 22 persona.

1 day. He explained the proposed workings of the new bank, once it gets into operation. O. G. Webb is | the county appraiser and the work will be done bcally through either (

Mr. Webb or Mr. Sutherlin The plan of the corporation at , present is to relieve the distressed R,.<.sp Matson is visiting the Greenhome owner who stands to lose his cas f| P rump at Eel River Falls, home through delinquent taxes, fore- Miss Lillian Southard left for Bay

| dosing of a mortgage

other way. The*new corporation will ; remainder of the -ummer.

other early-morning | relatives and friends. About twenty years ago he m >ved

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

Hogs 5.500; holdovei 277; mos'lv will he held in Indlanap lis tonight at steady; 140 t> 160 lb $3 75 to $l, which Wells and L. F. Shuttle" orth, 160 to 200 lbs. $4 55 to $1.60; 200 to pre-ident of the A. " iated Rrtai'srs 250 lbs. $4ti5; 250 to 350 Ibi. $4 30 of Indiana, w ill b" principal speakers.

wit IT his fa'iniiv't" « - i>lt,r»"lo where In •• <'•$»••*'. p.„king $3 26 to | • Repel citie* indi«Stremaining davs were spent. Cattle 1,400; calves 700; steers »1 practically all froj stores were I He is survived by four children, one "round 26c higher, hulk $6 to $7 50; ( adopting hours of 8 a. m. to 6 p m„ , half brother. Luther Chandler of near ! "thers steady, h-ifers .85 to *'i 25; w ith evening and Sunday openings

and .several other rela- ! «'..ws $3 25 to *4: low < utter ; at I cut- prohibited.

services will be held I ter8 $ l 50 to , ® c 1 '' Kher: The limestone rede, awaiting final

Coatesville.

tive.-. Funeral

from the Coatesville Baptist church, Friday morning at 10:30 with burial in The Be'hel cemetery oast of Fillmore.

be created w-as avail-

^mu ! 1 ' Sal ' 1 r ny addlt,,inal de ' “h 1 ’’' • other w ay. The’new corporation wil' ’ ■ -- ■ v i n nvuT T- * l,e Ursihel ! t1 17a cooperate with local lending organiaa- Mrs. Ralph Hill spent the day in i kl " h " n,a ' I .TAX RECEIPTS IMTWM „ „„ u , 1|M „ ... Terr. H

T AX KE( KII’TS $1,178,191

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 2 (UP)-

from the July 15

some V iew, Mich., wheie he will spend the AAHIIE RESIGNS

WASHINGTON Aug 2 (UP)—Secretary >f Labor Perk'ns announced

today the resignation

THE WEATHER | Gres a income taxe.

show-ers and thunderstorms collection reached $1178.191 today and Thursday; Little change with a.suit 10,000 returns still urn

1 tabula' 3

ers will he considered at the present Mrs. R E. L ngden returned home time. Anyone interested, may obtain fr>m a two week's visit in Lafayette, lefinite information through Mr. Judge Jame P Hughes was in InSutherlin. j dianapolis on legal business.

of R"he K

White, assistant ecretary, formerly of Muncie, Ind He resigned to practice law in Washington. His successor ♦tas not yet been named-

$6 down Sheep 1 ,.00; mostly 25 to 50c low \ er; lambs $6.60 to $7 75: top $8; , Bucks $1 less; FVes $2 to $3 RESTAURANT MEN IO MEET There will be a meeting of all restaurant operators of Greencastle at Lo: ust Cottage Thursday morning at 9 o'clock for the put pose of fixing a code under the national recovery

I act.

acceptance by recovery officials tn Washington, * was placed in effect yesterday by the Indiana Limestone

Institute.

A 15 per cent increase in the pay. roll of the Mishawaka Rubber and Woolen Manufacturing cnripany t Misha waka •■•■•as anm unced today. The Auburn Automobile comps 'y at Auburn announced a similar increase for Its employers. The Somerville Cooperative mine (Cun.inued on Page Two)